Newsletter Opinion - The Durango Herald

Letters: These Cortez mountain biking trails are world-class

I visited the Cash Canyon trailhead in Cortez to do some mountain biking on the recently constructed trails that emanate from there. The year-old BLM parking lot was almost full o...

DATE: Dec 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: You’re no good, baby, you’re just no good

Sen. Cory Gardner, working for President Donald Trump’s re-election, doesn’t seem to realize that the following characteristics are undesirable for a president of the United States: ...

DATE: Dec 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: I don’t want to see any New Mexico news

It is bad enough that we only get news from Albuquerque, not our own state! Now we are subjected to New Mexico news in the Herald. What’s with that? There are so many i...

DATE: Dec 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Dec 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Letters: No, you can’t put homeless in Three Springs

How lovely of Robin Brodsky to offer my neighborhood of Three Springs for a homeless encampment (“ I would love to know where Robin lives so that I can offer her neighborhood also. ...

DATE: Dec 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: Presidents can’t withhold aid Congress appropriates. Blame Nixon.

Presidents can’t withhold aid Congress appropriates – blame Richard Nixon

DATE: Dec 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Our view: On climate, hope’s death has been exaggerated

Last Tuesday morning, on the heels of the release of a new U.N. report on emissions and climate change, NPR host Rachel Martin had a climate policy expert, Elliot Diringer, Diringer quickl...

DATE: Dec 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Restrict mountain biking to paved roads

I would like to thank William Lieb for his excellent letter opposing mountain biking (“ But he didn’t go far enough. Mountain biking is totally incompatible with hiking, horsebac...

DATE: Dec 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

This UN population conference changed my life

Twenty-five years ago, I was in hot Cairo for the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development. It changed the direction the world has taken and also was life-changi...

DATE: Dec 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Letters: How could you have opposed Prop CC?

Our kids are our future. Therefore, teachers are one of the most important professions for Colorado and our nation at large. Technologically-advanced-age education matters even more. ...

DATE: Nov 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Gary Wockner: I voted CC down because I’m worried about growth’s costs

As a green Democrat, I was leaning toward a No vote on Proposition CC anyway, but it was Gov. Jared Polis’ op-ed in the Oct. 29 Denver Post (“ Polis made it abundantly clear that Prop. CC w...

DATE: Nov 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: This is the right use of sales tax proceeds

Thank you, Mayor Melissa Youssef and Councilors Dean Brookie and Chris Bettin, Parks and Recreation and Multimodal advisory board members and all the Durango citizens who stood up and spoke ...

DATE: Nov 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor